Cloacal swabs, commonly used as a proxy of gut microbiota membership in birds, are really poor at capturing the membership and community structure of lower GI tract microbes in chicken.
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Darwin Day 2020
Athrey helped organize the Darwin Day event in 2020, and it was a huge success and highly enjoyable event.
New graduate student, Mridula Gupta
Welcome to new PhD student, Ms. Mridula Gupta who joins us from India. She received […]
New pub on chicken gut microbiota
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Genomics course, coming 2020
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Shawna Hubert, Ph.D
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Travis wins awards at PSA
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PSA Montreal
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Athrey lab receives federal award to survey Golden-cheeked Warbler genetics
We received a an grant from the Department of Defense – US Army Corps of […]
Shawna Hubert defends Ph.D thesis
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